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Bags, bugs and basic food safety

Posted by Bob Martin on 07 July 2010 in Science, safety and health

It’s good to see a newspaper ‘debunking’ a media health scare for a change, as The Times did on Tuesday with ‘Bugs lurk in your bag for life’. Like many others, I try to do my bit for the environment by reusing shopping bags, so I was equally concerned to see headlines last week proclaiming that reusable bags may harbour ‘killer bugs’.

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Campylo–what?

Posted by Tim Smith on 19 May 2010 in Science, safety and health

The media spin about food that Andrew wrote about here earlier this week is one of the things I worry about as the FSA’s Chief Executive – which is why I’ve grabbed the blog to add my thoughts. I worry particularly when we talk publicly about complex risks at our open Board meetings, as we did last week. We discussed at some length a bug that most people have never heard of, but which poisons over 300,000 people every year and kills about a hundred. ‘Campylo-what?’

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Guest blogger: Eating healthy food

Posted by Andrew Wadge on 01 April 2010 in General interest

There are many aspects of food; nutrition, food poisoning, food hygiene. To me, food nutrition is having a balanced diet and sticking to the eatwell plate.

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Tighter controls needed on campylobacter

Posted by Andrew Wadge on 07 October 2009 in Science, safety and health

I had an early start this morning, talking about campylobacter on GMTV. Our latest survey shows that it's present on 65% of fresh chicken bought in the UK – so it was a good opportunity to remind people of the need for good hygiene in the kitchen (washing hands, cooking poultry until the juices run clear etc.) and to talk about what we're doing with poultry producers and retailers to tackle this problem.

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